Floating oil-distributer for vessels



(No Model.)

J. ERIOSON.

FLOATING OIL DISTRIBUTER FOR VESSELS. No. 880,479. Pate'ntedApr. 3, 1888.

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UNrrEn STATES PATENT @rrrca JOHN ERICSON, OF SABINE PASS, LOUISIANA.

FLOATING OIL-DISTRIBUTER FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380A79, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed July 19, 1857. Serial No. 244,733. (No model.)

To all whom, it 772 662,! concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN ERICSON, of Sabine Pass, in the parish of Cameron and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Floating Oil-Distributer forVessels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a floating oil-distributer for vessels, and has for its obj ect,when secured upon the weather side of a vessel, to automatically, by the action of the waves, distribute oil upon the troubled waters to calm the same.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device,and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a central vertical longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section thereof.

In carrying out the invention a boat, A, is provided of suitable size to be carried aboard a larger vessel, provided fore and aft with transverse bulk-heads A and a roof or cover,B.

Longitudinally and centrally theboat a shaft, 13, is journaled to the under side of the cover, which shaft, extending through at the stem and stern, is provided outside the boat with downwardlyextending metal plates 1). In each end chamber, D and D, formed by the bulk-heads, a pump, E, is vertically held, the upper end of each pump connecting with an aperture, 6, in the cover, as shown in Fig. 3, the piston of the said pumps being attached to and operated from a crank-arm on the shaft B. The lower ends of said pumps are made to project through the bulkheads into the larger central chamber, D where a transverse slot is cut from the upper side of the pipe nearly through the same. In said slot-s a segmental plate, F, provided wit-h apertures f near each end, is held to slide by central attachment to avertical rod, f, given motion from the shaft 13, to which it is secured A counter-poise weight, f is fastened to the shaft B, near each end,within the boat,where by when the said boat is still in the water the blades D will be kept vertical and neither aperture fin the plates F will register with the At one side of the hull a pocket, H, is produced by attaching a large piece of canvas or similar material longitudinally to the hull at the top, and also attaching the lower corners of said canvas near the bottom, the lower longitudinal edges and the ends being preferably left unattached, as shown in Fig. 4. The bot tom of the hull is made slightly rounding.

In operation the center compartment, D", is partially filled with oil and the space intervening the surface of the oil and the top of the cover is filled with air forced therein through the pump H.

In the event of a storm the small oil-boat is advantageously secured near the vessel to be protected by a length of rope or in any approved manner with the pocket H to the Windward. The action of the water upon the blades D will cause the shaft B to partially turn, which shaft will in turn cause one aperture f in the plates F to register with the opening in the oil-pumps E, and the pistons of saidpumps being operated silnultaneouslywith the inflow of oil, the said oil will be carried up in contact with the packing g, from whence, as the boat rolls, the said oil will be distributed upon the water and calm the same. The pocket II, being to windward, will be acted upon by the waves and serve to keep the oilboat away from the vessel. The boat is provided with a trawler, S, upon the lee side, attached at stem and stern, as shown in Figs. 2 and at, and a thimble, S, is made to slide upon said trawler, to which the rope leading to the vessel is secured, whereby the position of the boat may be accommodated to the position of the vessel when sailing before the wind.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a boat for distributing oil upon the water, the combination, with the hull A, provided with a cover, B, and divided into three compartments, D, D, and D, and oil-pumps E, located in the compartments D and pro- 5 jecting into the oil-compartment D, of the crank-shaft B, provided with external blades, D, a packing of absorbent material insaid cover connected with the pump, and means for introducing air into the compartment D, and for regulating and supplying the oil to said packing, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a boat for distributing oil upon thewater, the combination, with the hull A, provided with a cover, B, and divided into three compartments, D, D, and D, and oil-pumps E, located in the compartments D and projecting into the oil-compartment D", of the crank-shaft 13, provided with external blades, D, a packing of absorbent material in said cover connected with the pumps, the apertured swinging plates F, connected to the hull and connected with said shaft, and a piece of flexible material secured to one side of said hull to form a pocket,substantially as set forth.

JOHN ERIOSON. Witnesses:

JOSEPH SMITH, G. W. PAINE. 

